Cardinal: Church Should ‘Meet People Where They Are’

15 February 2018

Cardinal Joseph Tobin, C.Ss.R., archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, spoke recently at The Lay Centre [in Rome] benefit evening in Washington, D.C. He focused on how the Church can assist young people in their faith and vocational discernment, saying that the Church should “collaborate in the joy of young people rather than be tempted to take control of their faith.”

Such an approach reminds us that Cornelia Connelly “developed an educational system based on trust and reverence for the dignity of every human being.” She exhorted Holy Child educators to carry this spirit to students of diverse backgrounds as they sought to respond to “the wants of the age” in which they lived.